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highsea · 07-21-2006, 12:13 PM

tphuang, you are a PRC apologist.

Denial of the facts doesn't change them. Tibet formally declared their independence in 1912 after expelling the last of the Chinese troops that were occupying the country. Tibet conducted their own foreign affairs, signed treaties, was recognized by their neighbors and other countries as a sovereign nation. If Tibet was part of China, then there was no need for the 17 point agreement which was forced upon the Tibetan delegation to sign in China in 1951. It classic form, China then announced to the world that Tibet was liberated (from whom?).

In October 1991, the US Congress under a Foreign Authorisation Act passed the resolution wherein they recognised "Tibet, including those areas incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai, an occupied country under the established principal of international law".

The agreements that China makes with it's neighbors are believable only to wishful thinkers, since China will break them without hesitation as soon as it's favorable to China to do so. At best, they are temporary, and only negotiated to give China breathing room to focus on higher priorities like Taiwan.

I'm not going to change your mind, and you're not going to change mine. So I will give you the last word.

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highsea *Defense Professional* Join Date: 12-10-04 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 3,536	tphuang, you are a PRC apologist. Denial of the facts doesn't change them. Tibet formally declared their independence in 1912 after expelling the last of the Chinese troops that were occupying the country. Tibet conducted their own foreign affairs, signed treaties, was recognized by their neighbors and other countries as a sovereign nation. If Tibet was part of China, then there was no need for the 17 point agreement which was forced upon the Tibetan delegation to sign in China in 1951. It classic form, China then announced to the world that Tibet was liberated (from whom?). In October 1991, the US Congress under a Foreign Authorisation Act passed the resolution wherein they recognised "Tibet, including those areas incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai, an occupied country under the established principal of international law". The agreements that China makes with it's neighbors are believable only to wishful thinkers, since China will break them without hesitation as soon as it's favorable to China to do so. At best, they are temporary, and only negotiated to give China breathing room to focus on higher priorities like Taiwan. I'm not going to change your mind, and you're not going to change mine. So I will give you the last word. __________________ My baby called me up. She said- Why don't you ever take me out? Pick me up in your brand new car....You shake the short change from the old fruit jar...